The sound will be much more bare and alive. The set, which will be released in North America as part of a new deal with MCA, is due to be mixed in mid-June at Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios in London.Ĭomparing the album to “Agaetis Byrjun,” Birgisson says, “the main difference is that this time the production will be less polished. “We’re kind of bored with making the album so we want it to come out as soon as possible, September or October 2002 even,” he continues. This time we used the girls that have been touring with us and just let them jam in the studio until everyone was happy.” We used people from the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra when we did ‘Agaetis Byrjun’ and they had to have everything written out note by note. “We had to do them in two days last time.
“This time we took two weeks to record the strings,” Birgisson, a.k.a. Recorded in the band’s own Reykjavik studio, a converted indoor swimming pool, the yet-to-be titled album will consist of road-tested songs such as “Popplagid” and “Daudalagid,” respectively translated as “The Pop Song” and “The Death Song.” Says Birgisson, “It’s just those songs we have been playing at concerts for the last few years.” “We have done the drums, the bass, my guitar, and the strings.” “We have recorded 8 or 9 songs,” says founding guitarist/vocalist Jon Thor Birgisson of the follow up to “Agaetis Byrjun,” winner of last year’s inaugural U.S. Experimental Icelandic quartet Sigur Ros is nearing completion of its next album and eyeing a fall release, according to a post from the band on its Icelandic record label Web site, Bad Taste.
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